Togonon Gallery inaugurates a new exhibition space devoted to photography at its 77 Geary Street location with “Counterpoint 2009, The Beginning--Recent Works of Seven West Coast Artist Using Photography”.  This is a showcase of the freshest and most engaging work of West Coast photographers in the first show in a series answering the query: “Is there a West Coast perspective that can be captured by present day Photography?”

Gallery Director, Julina Togonon explains, “Photography as a contemporary art form have had a gloried history in the West Coast, and in particular in the San Francisco Bay Area.  With the gallery’s interest in West Coast art, we want to take a deeper look at how the present artists have now taken up the paths laid by early pioneers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange and Imogen Cunningham, to name a few.”  

The seven in the exhibition, Jack Fulton, Darcy Padilla, Klea McKenna, Jackson Patterson, Jessica Skloven, Lucia Zegada and Richard Bluecloud Castaneda represent artists that are on both established and emerging career paths.  They bring together elements of their artistic talents to create images that reflect nature, beauty, politics, poetic symbolism, personal and social issues, balancing varied photographic techniques from the historical to the cutting edge technology and simultaneously responding to worldwide photography practice.  This will be a rare treat to see local Bay Area artists in an established gallery setting downtown.

Location: Togonon Gallery, 77 Geary St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-5:30pm
Meet the Artists: Saturday, December 5